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About Waterline

Waterline

Released 2014

The album ‘Waterline”, is available on:

Apple iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic, Nokia, Inprodicon, GreatIndieMusic, Amazon MP3, Xbox Music, 7digital, MySpace Music, 24-7, Omnifone, Simfy, Google Music Store, iHeartRadio, Rumblefish, Rdio, Muve Music, Slacker Radio, Shazam, Yandex, Samsung Music Hub, Mondia Media, WiMP, Akazoo, MediaNet, CD Baby Publishing,  JB Hi-Fi, Beyond Oblivion, and Spotify. Just search for Randy Palmer or Waterline. 

Everyone that helped make the 'Waterline' album include:

Randy Palmer - lead vocals and acoustic rhythm guitar

Cindy Cashdollar - dobro and baritone Weisenborn

Carl LoSchiavo - double and electric bass

Mario Pietro Michele Bregante "Merel Bregante" - drums, percussion and vocals.

Brian J Kalinec - acoustic rhythm and lead guitar

John Inmon - acoustic and electric rhythm and lead   guitar

Riley Osbourn - acoustic and electric piano and b3

Doug Hudson - acoustic rhythm guitar, mandolin, and banjo

Cody Braun - fiddle and mandolin

Mike Dorrien - electric guitar

Sarah Pierce - Background vocals

Merri Palmer - Background vocals

Betsey Palmer - Background vocals

Maggie Scales - Violin

Recorded/Produced by/at Merel Bregante of  The Cribworks Digital Audio

Mastered by Jerry Tubb at: Terra Nova Digital Mastering

Waterline - Lyrics

 

It's a hot muggy day, drinking red Red Cross koolaide 

I wish I'd sleep and this would be a dream 

Don't believe that TV screen or those news stand magazines 

Until you've stood beneath the waterline 

 

Chorus 

Come stand next to me, from here what do you see 

Is there a future or are we captives of the past 

With our backs to the wall, at the ceiling the lines crawl 

It's something we all share, in and out and everywhere 

We live beneath the waterline 

We live beneath the waterline 

 

I've seen cars up in trees, houses washed down the street 

Lives lost, souls washed away 

If your rich or your poor, it don't matter anymore 

We're all the same beneath the waterline 

 

Chorus 

 

Bridge 

This a not a battle between us and a storm 

It is a fight for home and family 

To give and get love 

If my house don't make it 

Honey I still have a home 

It's here with the brothers and sisters 

The saints keep marching on 

 

Chorus

It's So Beautiful - Lyrics

 

 She forgave the lies I told her, all the ways I broke her heart 

Let me walk outside and walk back in and begin with a new start 

She lets me love her clean and pure 

Puts her hand in mine as I'm reaching out for her's 

 

Chorus 

That's so beautiful, it's so fine 

It's so flesh and blood, so Devine 

Not be alone in this universe 

She belongs to me, I belong to her 

 

Every single morning I am more amazed 

Cause she can see deep down inside me 

The best me I will ever be 

She lives with the progress of this old piece of work 

She loves me just like I am 

For better or for worse 

 

Chorus 

 

Bridge 

I'm still on the trail of the girl who stole my heart 

Winning her everyday is what sweetness is about 

She protects me from the cold, safest warm I've ever felt 

Thank our lucky stars we'll keep our secretes to ourselves 

 

Chorus

Screened in Porch - Lyrics

 

 The old tin roof it leaks sometimes 

Right over the door when you go in or outside 

The firewood's stacked safe and dry 

Next to the wood stove that's as old as time 

The winter won't last such a long long time 

Down in these hardwoods and tall white pines 

Soon we'll be mowing grass, tending tomato vines 

That's the rhythm of the southern life 

 

Chorus 

You just can't beat the summertime 

As the tea soaks up the last sunshine 

The front porch turns into Ryman Hall 

It is Hank, George, John and Minnie Pearl 

We'll tap out the beat on weathered boards 

Been painted 100 times, worn down to bare wood floor 

If I die, I hope I live forevermore 

In the heaven of a screened in porch 

 

The guitars are tuned and the bass thumps low 

The locust hum, fire bugs make the whole place glow 

There's a lot more peace and a lot less war 

Out here on the screened in porch 

The cats and the dog are blessed by The Lord 

As they dodge the rocking chairs that walk this floor 

We're keeping time is so much more 

It's making heart beats for this world 

 

Chorus

Less is More - Lyrics

 

I park the car. My chin falls to my chest 

I say a prayer. My words will be blessed 

That her bottle will still be full 

Trapped between less and more 

 

I am her son. I am a child that she has born 

It's a cold winter's night. In her home out on the shore 

She needs the truth. And I need her 

We're both between less and more 

 

Chorus 

As a child, she'd tuck me in 

My favorite story, she'd read again and again 

As I laid there. In my mother's arms 

That bottle stole away her heart 

 

It's not to late. You know we can start again 

Take it from me. Let me show you where I've been 

We'll step down off civic street 

It's where I go. It’s where I meet 

 

In that room no one will laugh 

We tell our stories. You can be my guest 

We've all stood there in your shoes 

With less and more we've had to choose 

 

Chorus

Hold on to Love - Lyrics

 

 Four in the morning 

Doubts start to forming 

On the backside of my mind 

I've been roaming these roads 

For so many years 

I'm not sure I can leave them behind 

 

She says that she loves me 

Lord that she needs me 

Right there at her side 

That's the chance that you take 

In decisions you make 

If you hold to the love that you find 

 

Chorus 

Hold on 

Hold to the love that you know 

You've got to hold on 

Either hold or you gotta let go 

 

Daylight will find me 

The highway behind me 

Reaching for that lady's arms 

I'll be holding a space 

In than woman's grace 

I'll be feeling so safe and so warm 

 

I'll give her my heart 

All except for the part 

That I save for the road left behind 

But I'll leave it right there 

Cause it's perfectly clear 

You got to hold to the love that you find

 

Chorus

Blow Dirt Blow - Lyrics

  

He looks across the kingdom of the acres that he owns 

To the Llano Estacado the place he calls home 

This homestead is not easy, plant your sign and make your mark 

320 acres, just enough to make a start 

 

Chorus 

Then it's blow dirt blow, theses acres into dreams 

You can't make her whole 

Unless you give her back her heart 

and leave behind the greed 

 

The cowboys and the Indians they both disagreed 

They said this land was made for grass, not cotton and not wheat 

It is home to the buffalo then the sacred cow 

You turn this sod over and you're gonna drive her spirit out 

 

Chorus 

 

Bridge 

Then the dust stood as deep as the snow 

Covered all the fence posts then the windows and the doors 

The old folks and the baby we prayed they might survive 

Choked on dirt all through the night 

 

Chorus

Free Side of the Hill - Lyrics

 

 I woke up this morning, I knew I was alone 

So I said to myself, how long can this go on? 

I decided then and there, there is more than a mortal will 

So I began a search for the free side of the hill 

 

Chorus 

You might find me, you might find me 

Yes, but you must look to the free side of the hill 

You might find me, you might find me 

Yes, but you must look to the free side of the hill 

 

Genius Khan was the man supreme, through out all his lands 

You know Alexander held the world In the palm of his hands 

They concurred all and could not capture Peace of mind 

Their empires failed, all they left was a memory behind 

 

Chorus 

 

Tell me, why run a race, if you do not plan to win? 

Please tell me, why stand in the water If you don't know not how to swim? 

Why pursue a goal, that’s no bigger than yourself? 

What's the reason for this living, is it heaven or is it hell ? 

 

Chorus

Step Back in Time - Lyrics

 

 I placed the bet 

So I live with the regret 

For every song that I 'll never sing 

I've dreamed dreams inside dreams 

They're still hanging in the breeze 

So I hold my breath 

So they don't blow away 

 

Chorus 

If I could step back in time 

Rewind all the choices that I've made 

Yes if there were a chance 

I'd never hold your hand 

There is nothing 

I would want to change 

 

If a wish or a roll 

Could turn theses songs to gold 

I'd be the first 

To toss the dice 

I'd weave words into scenes 

Where the blues all turn to green 

And we could leave our troubles far behind 

 

Chorus x2

 

 I'm not sure if I know 

Where the wind comes from or the falling snow 

But I know that look that's in your eyes 

It's telling me to just relax 

Cause in your arms there is no turning back 

The questions of today can wait their turn 

 

Chorus 

Live life fully, not so fast 

No need to hurry, just let it pass 

 

Disasters strike and wonders shine 

On Wall Street and the welfare line 

Who's to say we get what we deserve 

There are flowers I've never smelled 

Feelings I have not felt 

Questions I could ask if i had the nerve 

 

Chorus 

 

Morning's come and you're next to me 

There' chirping birds and there's ecstasy 

Treasures that our words, they can't describe 

The secrets they are whispers shared 

Wrapped inside of just being there 

Thank our lucky stars that we're alive 

 

Chorus  x2

 

Coming of Age - Lyrics

 

 Two middle age lovers, we cling to each other 

Pray that we're working on our one another's 

We practice keeping the promises made 

Savor the wholeness of coming of age 

 

Sweeter and deeper with each passing day 

Takes a lot of hard work out here on the way 

Together for ever comes a day at a time 

Living in love is like gold down a mine 

 

Chorus 

We stop up our ears, just close our eyes 

To all the distractions , all of the lies 

Count out the blessings of a home that love's made 

That's the wholeness of coming of age 

 

We planted and watered and guarded our seed 

Walked all the boundaries, pulled out the weeds 

They're fruitful and strong, they're our children, our fields 

There's a great day coming when we gather the yield 

 

Sweet situations still bring me a smile 

Great expectations are well worth the miles 

Secretes shared in sickness and health 

For richer and poorer and all the hands dealt 

 

Chorus

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